Roger can sit wherever the hell he wants for one thing [Respect]. Second, by the looks on his face he seems to not know or bother which chair he sat and third i suspect the article is complete BS, i cant find any other articles relevant to this in google and the op seems to be trying very hard or hell bent to search for federer's articles only with an intention of trying to bring him down.

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You did not search enough.
I have found at least two other articles in foreign languates discussing the same thing.
THat, however, does not make them correct...

I don't think the OP or anyone can bring Fed legacy down. I also don't think Federer can change who he is inside...

This is exactly what happened. She let go of Fed's hand next to the left seat. It's not like she led him to the right seat but he refused to go there.

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But you forget that the haters have chosen to ignore this obvious part from the video Not one has responded to this point.
Federer doesn't violate rules in general unlike you-know-whos so how else do you diss him ? Invent a fictitious rule and accuse him of violating it :twisted:

But you forget that the haters have chosen to ignore this obvious part from the video Not one has responded to this point.
Federer doesn't violate rules in general unlike you-know-whos so how else do you diss him ? Invent a fictitious rule and accuse him of violating it :twisted:

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So its all in the control of little some 8 year old kid who knows where to take fed and leave him. Blame the intelligent kid.

I call bullsh1t on this entire story. When Djokovic is about to sit down you can clearly see the towel on his chair with "Novak Djokovic" written on it. So they both set down in their own chairs, there's nothing wrong here.

EDIT: Just noticed what Romismak pointed out. I guess Federer did sit in the wrong seat.

I don´t have time now watch every match from WTF if higher ranked player sit on bench left from umpire, but fact is Roger was on ,,wrong,, bench, you can see clearly DJokovic - written for 1sec, than Nole in few minutes when entering arena has Djokovic towels on other bench - right from umpire - so logically ball kids or someone moved it from Fed instead of saying him he should sit on other bench. Now question is was this ,,move,, from Roger to show Nole something or was it just fax paux? But i wonder what are organizers doing before match? they can´t even tell those guys hey you sit righ you sit left?

I call bullsh1t on this entire story. When Djokovic is about to sit down you can clearly see the towel on his chair with "Novak Djokovic" written on it. So they both set down in their own chairs, there's nothing wrong here.

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Apparently, the ball kid had to move Djokovic's towel to the other bench because Federer was being an ass and sat on Djokovic's bench.

Yes , hahah really there was 'DJOKOVIC' word hanging on the towel it seems roger saw it too, clearly as evident from the video, i missed it before. I can say he definitely saw it but what can we say fed da man :twisted:

Yes , hahah really there was 'DJOKOVIC' word hanging on the towel it seems roger saw it too, clearly as evident from the video, i missed it before. I can say he definitely saw it but what can we say fed da man :twisted:

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Federer taking a seat belonging to the person he's playing against makes him the man?

Does anyone know the rules concerning this? Can't imagine there was any flouting of the rules, if there are any. Roger selected the chair as he came out first, he may not have noticed the towel until he sat down, then decided to move the towels as he probably already settled on the seat. Surely there can't be any strict regulations about where the players should be seated? Does anyone know?

Or tradition started after 2007?
Interesting that someone mentioned that all the rest of the 2012 WTF matches followed the "tradition". I assume your mind failed to register that one

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Well it's not much of a tradition if it just started in 2007 :neutral:.

Which I don't believe to be true anyway. There is no concrete proof anywhere of that. I DO think he sat in the wrong chair but then I highly doubt he did it on purpose. Probably didn't even realize. Maybe a few years ago you could have convinced me, but Fed's mellowed out a lot since his prime.

This article is total BS until confirmed by another source. I started to read it more closely and here's the result - just look at the first sentence:

"Traditionally, the bench to the left of the chair umpire is reserved for the higher-ranked player in a tennis match."

In a TENNIS MATCH, it doesn't say anything about the WTF. Since someone else came up with another example (Roddick sitting to the umpire's right in a match against Benneteau at the US Open), it confirms that this is BS.

Reading further:"I bet if Federer met the president and someone in the room said, "Mr. President, there's an urgent call for you," Federer would dig his phone out of his pocket to see who was ringing him."

takes away all the credibility that the journalist who wrote this had. If this is not biased then I don't know what is.

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The article is complete BS. It will not be proven wrong by another source.

What kind of stupid discussion is this? Since when is sitting in a particular chair a matter of honor or advantageous in any respect?

The higher ranked player coming out second onto the court makes some sense as he/she can receive an extended round of applause if the crowd so wishes (whereas the first player's thunder is stolen when the second player makes an entrance)

Also it's not like Roger made any other kind of deliberate verbal diss to indicate any bad blood with Novak. In fact, roger has been effusive in Nvaks's praise all tournament long. First he told reporters "we know who the real no.1 is, and it's Novak. There are no grounds for disputing that". At the end of the match he told Novak " you're the best". Even in his post match pressed, he praised Novak's game.

arrogant Fed showing his true colors and undeservedly snatching the seat from N0.1

Assuming Fed did it by Mistake, you can forgive him. Imagine if Novak had done this by mistake .... whole bunch of *******s on TT would be cursing him and wishing him death sentence on next available daylight!

What kind of stupid discussion is this? Since when is sitting in a particular chair a matter of honor or advantageous in any respect?

The higher ranked player coming out second onto the court makes some sense as he/she can receive an extended round of applause if the crowd so wishes (whereas the first player's thunder is stolen when the second player makes an entrance)

Also it's not like Roger made any other kind of deliberate verbal diss to indicate any bad blood with Novak. In fact, roger has been effusive in Nvaks's praise all tournament long. First he told reporters "we know who the real no.1 is, and it's Novak. There are no grounds for disputing that". At the end of the match he told Novak " you're the best". Even in his post match pressed, he praised Novak's game.

Roger can sit wherever the hell he wants for one thing [Respect]. Second, by the looks on his face he seems to not know or bother which chair he sat and third i suspect the article is complete BS, i cant find any other articles relevant to this in google and the op seems to be trying very hard or hell bent to search for federer's articles only with an intention of trying to bring him down.

neither Fed or Djoko care about the chairs, before the match their mind is fully preoccupied by their game plan, only some psycho fans bring it up as a big deal. Better use your time to what tennis videos, do on court practice,..ect you idiot!

ALL traditions started at one point, just like everything else.
Although Englidh is not my mother tongue, I believe I have a better understanding of this situation than you, noob...

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Oh yes, all traditions start at some point, but let's not get ahead of ourselves, shall we? For that matter, English isn't my mother tongue either, but a tradition isn't a spur-of-the-moment thing, you can't suddenly decide something is a tradition because it's been done like, twice.

So, let's recap. You've had a professional chair umpire telling you that no such tradition ever existed in tennis. Then, several of us gave examples of this "tradition" not being upheld in places like Wimbledon (where I understand they're pretty big at tradition). You and your pals countered that with a desperate "Oh, but it's a WTF tradition."

We then showed you that Ferrer was sitting on the left in the 2007 WTF final. So now it's "Oh, but it's a WTF tradition that originated after 2007."

Sure.

Let's keep having fun, then. Check the Federer-Nadal final of 2010. Nadal was #1 at the time, and guess where Federer is sitting? You've got it, on the left.

So that WTF-specific tradition didn't exist in 2010 either. Guess it must be a pretty big thing, then. (I didn't check matches from 2011 except the final, sorry--and you'll be happy to learn that, in this case, Federer sat on the left, as "tradition" warrants, yadda, yadda.)

So, either this is a total BS article (like some of us have been saying from the start, with tons of examples disproving it), or we're looking at a great, hallowed tradition that nobody except the infamous guy who wrote the article ever heard about, a tradition which is so cool and so far-reaching that it is apparently reserved for the WTF only, and which originated sometime between 2011 and 2012.

It's a bullsh*t article. If there was any truth in this, Koenig would have commented on it. I have this recorded and clearly, Fedex just sat down on the first available chair. It was dark and he certainly would NOT have noticed the towels were Nole's.